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Saturday, 2 August 2014

Gnostic View of Disclosure

A Gnostic View of Disclosure

By John Lamb Lash

In a text in the Nag Hammadi collection discovered in Egypt
in December 1945, an unnamed teacher declares to his student: “Behold, I shall
reveal to you the path of deliverance. Whenever you are seized [in the soul]
and undergo mortal fear, a multitude of archons may turn on you, thinking they
can capture you. And in particular, three of them will seize you, those who
pose as toll collectors. Not only do they demand toll, but they take away souls
by theft.” (Nag Hammadi Library in English, ed. by James Robinson, 265)

Consider the information packed into this short paragraph:
the certainty of a supernatural confrontation, the mortal fear it inspires, the
threat of being captured or taken hostage, the large number of predators, their
habit of appearing in threes, the demand for tribute or toll, the feat of
abduction (“take away souls by theft”). And the intruders are even named
outright: archons.

The First Apocalypse of James, probably written down around
300 CE, presents a glimpse of “higher education” in the Mystery Schools – that
is to say, education concerning the supernatural, the paranormal,
parapsychology, and the noetic sciences.

The founders and leaders of those schools were ancient seers
called Gnostikoi, “those who know divine matters.” Gnostics were the
arch-enemies of the early Christian converts and ideologues such as Irenaeus,
who established the canon of the four Gospels of the New Testament. In order
for Christianity to rise to power and meld with the Roman Empire as a state
religion with an agenda of totalitarian mind control, its advocates had to
eliminate the competition. Gnostics threatened the salvationist agenda due to
something they knew, or claimed to know, about its origins.

Scholars of Gnosticism do not ask why the threat posed by the
Mystery adepts was so great and grave that it required centuries of murder,
persecution, and intellectual genocide to be eliminated. On the contrary, they
routinely assume that Gnostic sects were early, innocuous variations of
primitive Christianity. They take the writings found in the Nag Hammadi Codices
for out takes of Christian material. That being so, why did the Gnostic message
simply not co-exist and mingle with the writings that were to become canonical
for the Judeo-Christian faith? Why did they have to be extirpated, root and
branch?

The threat posed to Christian ideology by the Gnostic
message was very great, indeed. And still is. For one thing, Gnostics asserted
that the paternal father god of Jews and Christians alike, Jahweh-Jehovah, was
in reality one of the archons. An alien intruder, a hostile ET. And moreover,
they insisted that this alien pretender is insane and working against humanity.
Needless to say, this proposition was extremely alarming to devotees of the
Abrahamic faith. Since the discovery of the Gnostic cache in Egypt in 1945,
that alarm is again sounding across the land.

The Sophianic Vision

Extensive noetic and parapsychological training, undertaken
in teams (cells) and maintained for generations, allowed adepts of the pre-Christian
Mysteries to detect predatory ETs, discern their origin and habitat, identify
their forms, and to unmask their motives and methods, as well as how to resist
them. That itself was an immense achievement in psychic detection.

But for all their scope and finesse in supernatural matters,
the Gnostikoi were also acute observers of the social world. They had a
rigorous deconstructive view of history and the belief-systems that drive human
behaviour.

“Pagan adepts from
the Mysteries in the Levant and Egypt saw in the salvationist agenda of
Abrahamic religion both the evidence and the instrument of archontic deviation”
(Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief by
John Lamb Lash). The evidence and the instrument.

In other words, they saw in the religious ideology of
male-only creation, election, messiahship, atonement, retribution, etc., the
evidence of deviant intrusion on the human mind, and they identified that
ideology as the very instrument of the intruding force, archons.

This analysis is extremely close to the notion of the
“foreign installation,” attributed by Carlos Castaneda to alien intruders
called flyers. Interestingly, the made-up Aramaic-Hebrew name, Ialdabaoth,
assigned by Gnostics to the archon overlord, may mean “the one who flies or
flits around in space.”

Gnostic teachers in the Mysteries were devotees of the
goddess called Sophia, “wisdom” in Greek. They were deeply versed in the
designs and purposes of this divine power through their method of mathesis,
instruction by the Light – that is to say, the primal living radiance of the
goddess herself. Gnostics accessed the source of life and consciousness on this
planet, for Sophia, although originally a goddess from the galactic centre, had
morphed into the material body of our planet. So goes the Gnostic origin myth.
Prior to her conversion into materiality, the aeon Sophia (as she was addressed
honorifically) had engineered the human genome among the company of gods in the
galactic core, the pleroma (“fullness, plenitude”).

In the sacred instruction of the Mysteries, Sophia is both
the source of pre-terrestrial humanity, our divine parent, and the setting in
which human life unfolds, this planetary habitat. Her biography, the Sophianic
origin myth, is the story that guides our species on its proper course of
experience. Illumined teachers in the Mysteries taught the three Ss: source,
setting, story. Ancient writers assert that all the Mysteries were dedicated to
the Magna Mater, the Great Mother, i.e., Sophia embodied in the Earth. Today an
appropriate name for the wisdom goddess would be Gaia-Sophia. I suggest the
pronunciation So-FI-uh over So-FEE-uh, to distinguish the sacred name from the
latter, the common name for a woman: Guy – UH – so – FI – uh.

Error, Not Evil

The Sophianic vision story of the pagan Mysteries is the
cosmic biography of Gaia-Sophia, divine wisdom embodied in the Earth.
Amazingly, this scenario not only recounts the origin of humanity in the
galactic centre, but also the origin of the species of the predatory aliens
called archons, who endanger the human adventure in certain ways.

Gnostics saw the threat operating along two trajectories: by
psychic intrusion or mental parasitism, and by deviant and insane beliefs
framed in religious ideology, such as creation by an off-planet father god, the
chosen people, messianic expectations, the redemptive value of suffering,
apocalypse, and divine retribution. Indeed, they attribute such beliefs to a
kind of channelling from the archons.

In the Gnostic view, the invasion of our world by hostile
ETs has been underway for millennia. Via the intrusion of an alien mindset into
human consciousness, rather than a physical invasion with saucers and Flash
Gordon death-rays. No such event was foreseen by Gnostics, for archons are
unable to live in the terrestrial habitat. However, they would have us destroy
the home planet out of sheer envy against us, Gnostics cautioned.

Several texts in the Nag Hammadi Library warn explicitly
that archons envy humanity for the qualities of freedom and love, not to
mention ingenuity and imagination, all of which they lack. These texts state
that the envious ETs operate through deception and excel in simulation (Coptic
HAL), but basically have no agenda or master plan except to disrupt and confuse.
Their plan is “senselessness,” a pointless game of “fear and enslavement”
(NHLE, 364-5) to which humans succumb due to egotism. Detesting the innocence
and brilliance of the human species, they delight in deception and confusion
for its own sake, cosmic spoilers, tricksters bent on absurdity. Our confusion
actually entertains them, and they feed vicariously off our fear.

It is important to emphasise that Gnostics did not consider
archons to be evil as such. The autonomy of evil and similar propositions are –
if you will allow this expression – alien to the Gnostic way of thinking.
Gnostics were the cream of pagan intelligentsia. Pagans essentially did not see
evil in the cosmos, but they realised the risk of deviance from cosmic harmony.
Gnostics refuted the concept of cosmic or “satanic” evil working against
humanity. In their view, no one can sin, but we can all make mistakes. And
mistakes can be corrected. Even the error of the archons can be corrected.

Mystery teachings do not carry apocalyptic predictions, but
the plot of the Sophianic myth contains a key event called “correction” (Greek
diorthosis), indicating a decisive moment in the human adventure when we as a
species come to terms definitively with the archon problem, the alien presence
on Earth. We would resolve and correct that problem through reaching an
interactive connection to the wisdom goddess.

Indications point to that moment being now, right now. The
decisive factor in the event would not be disclosure, for aliens have been
known to lurk around the human world since time immemorial, including many
benevolent kinds. Are we to assume there is only one predatory alien,
identified by those ancient seers? Well, one is all it takes. And if there were
more than one malevolent intruder, and we cannot clearly see even one, we would
really be in trouble, wouldn’t we?

What if, at the moment of correction, humanity achieves
deliverance from the delusion of the Archons, overthrowing the devious strategy
that gives them an advantage in our minds? The follow-up of Gnostic psychic
detection would then be deliverance from Archontic influence rather, than
disclosure of their presence in some official capacity

Prison Planet

The “foreign installation” or archontic implant may also be
regarded as a delusional matrix, a false paradigm. By broad definition a matrix
is any setting or habitat: the natural world is the matrix of all terrestrial
creatures. Your home is the matrix of your domestic life. Your soul-life is the
matrix of your sensibility, aesthetics, ethics. But a matrix can also be a
construct of unnatural or inorganic origin. Like a labyrinth or house of
mirrors. Like a bureaucracy or government agency, a Kafkaesque impersonal
system. Gnostic seers saw the danger of humans getting trapped in such systems,
to the extent of becoming soulless and losing our humanity.

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